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The Biden Administration Rethinks its Approach to Drilling on Public Lands in Alaska, Soliciting Further Review

The Bureau of Land Management is inviting public input on ConocoPhillips’ Willow project on the North Slope, following a court reversal on leases it approved last year in the Gulf of Mexico.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Pipelines extend across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, 36 miles from the Willow Master Development Plan located in the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska's North Slope. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images.
The shadow of a bush plane falls on the landscape of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The reserve includes the proposed Willow project. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

ConocoPhillips’ Plan for Extracting Half-a-Billion Barrels of Crude in Alaska’s Fragile Arctic Presents a Defining Moment for Joe Biden

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Smoke from the Phillips 66 refinery in Ponca City billows a short distance from the Standing Bear Museum and Educational Center, where benzene continues to contaminate the groundwater. Oil rights were taken from the Ponca Tribe in north central Oklahoma and then exploited by the oil and gas industry with little thought given to environmental protection. Credit: Phil McKenna

‘We’re Being Wrapped in Poison’: A Century of Oil and Gas Development Has Devastated the Ponca City Region of Northern Oklahoma

By Phil McKenna

A lone oil barrell in the tundra near the National Petroleum Reserve. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

A Federal Judge’s Rejection of a Huge Alaska Oil Drilling Project is the Latest Reversal of Trump Policy

By Georgina Gustin

An aerial view from a drone shows the Maryland State House, on April 16, 2020 in Annapolis, Maryland. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Maryland’s Capital City Joins a Long Line of Litigants Seeking Climate-Related Damages from the Fossil Fuel Industry

By David Hasemyer

Occidental Petroleum announced on Tuesday that it will reach net-zero emissions for all the oil and gas it produces by mid-century. Credit: Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Two U.S. Oil Companies Join Their European Counterparts in Making Net-Zero Pledges

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Oil Giants BP, ConocoPhillips Drop Out of US Climate Action Partnership

By SolveClimate Staff

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